This presentation summarizes the Community Currencies in Action (CCIA) collaboration project, which is developing and testing community currency demonstrations across several countries in Northwestern Europe. The CCIA project aims to share knowledge and best practices to help communities strengthen their local economies, environments, and societies. It will design, develop, and implement various types of community currencies, including those backed by national currencies, time-based currencies, and currencies that reward environmental protection. The CCIA project is funded by the INTERREG IVB North West Europe Program and hopes to establish resources to support the continued growth of community currencies.

1. Community
Currencies in Action
EU Interreg IVB,
North West Europe
Ben Dineen
Spice
14th November 2014

2. This presentation has been produced by Spice as part of the Community Currencies in Action (CCIA)
collaboration project.
CCIA is a transnational partnership working to develop and deliver community currency demonstrations in several member
states across the North West of Europe. CCIA will lead the way in sharing knowledge and best practice to enable communities
throughout Europe to grow stronger in their ability to achieve vibrant and prosperous networks that are efficient in delivering
social, economic and environmental outcomes.
CCIA will design, develop and implement community currencies across NW Europe; providing a rigorously tested package of
support structures to facilitate the development of CCs across NWE and promote CCs as a credible (policy) vehicle for
achieving positive outcomes.
CCIA is part funded through the INTERREG IVB North West Europe (NWE) Programme, which is a financial instrument of the
European Union’s Cohesion Policy - Investing in Opportunities.
Find out more about CCIA on our website: www.communitycurrenciesinaction.eu

3. Community Currencies by objectives
Local exchange – backed by fiat currencies
Social exchange – time credits/hours
Economic exchange – Business Barter, Loyalty points
Environmental exchange – Reward Points, Carbon quotas

4. Local Exchange: backed by FIAT
CCIA Observer Bristol Pound
www.bristolpound.org

5. Social Exchange: time based

6. Environmental: Reward Points

7. Economic Exchange: B2B mutual Credit
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8. Our Legacy
Knowledge Centre
Design and toolkits
Legal and compliance
IT and infrastructure
Measuring impact

9. C-C.info: Knowledge Centre

10. Toolkits and Design

11. Legal and Compliance

12. IT and Infrastructure

13. Measuring Impact